Quiz Questions
Declaration of Independence
For all you Patriots who want your freedom from that tyrant King George III!
1. Who was the author of the
Declaration of Independence?
2. What are the 3 main ideas of the document?
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Quiz Question
4 Principles/ideas of the Declaration of
Independence
• Principle 1: All people are created equal
• Principle 2: All people have basic rights that cannot
be taken away
• Principle 3. The government gets its power to make
decisions and to protect rights from the people.
• Principle 4: When the government does not protect
the rights of the people, the people have the right to
change or remove the government.
Quiz Question
3 main parts of the document
• Natural Rights of Citizens
• Complaints about King George III
• Declaring 13 colonies separate from England
Quiz Questions
Excerpt passage on slavery, “sacred rights of life and liberty…of a
distant people (by) carrying them into slavery.” The delegates
compromised and took out this passage for the unity of the
colonies/states.
Explain why Northern Delegates opposed the passage on
slavery.
• Feared merchants might be offended because they benefited
from the slave trade.
Explain why Southern Delegates (S.C. & Georgia) opposed the
passage on slavery.
• Feared if the passage was left in it would lead to free the
slaves, enslaved Africans were free labor, economy would be
destroyed.
Quiz Questions
Fill-in the following blanks.
• Every signer understood that he was committing
an act of Treason against Great Britain.
• If the new nation failed each of them could end
up swinging from a hangman’s Rope
Memorize Excerpt of D.O.I.
• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to
secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed, — That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem
most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.
Quiz Question
3. Using the excerpts write the meaning of the
following text taken from the
Declaration of Independence.
“When, in the course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bonds which have connected them with
another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which
the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to the separation.”
Quiz Question
4. Using the excerpts write the meaning of the
following text taken from the
Declaration of Independence.
“We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights, that
among these are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.”
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5. Using the excerpts write the meaning of the
following text taken from the
Declaration of Independence.
“That whenever any form of
government becomes destructive (in
protecting rights and responding to the
people) it is the right of the people to alter
or to abolish it, and to institute new
government.”
Quiz Question
6. Using the excerpts write the meaning of the
following text taken from the
Declaration of Independence.
“In every state of these oppressions, we have
petitioned for redress in the most humble
terms; our repeated petitions have been
answered only by repeated injury. A prince
whose character is thus marked by every act
which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the
ruler of a free people.”
Quiz Question-Match Word with Definition
Declaration of Independence Vocabulary
Match up the following words and meanings
7. Impel
8. Endowed
9. Unalienable Rights
10. Usurpations
11.Tyranny
12.Candid
13.Assent
14.Petitioned for Redress
A. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
B. Fair
C. Agree, conquer
D. Force
E. Wrongful seizures of power
F. Asked formally for correcting
wrongs
G. Provided
H. Oppressive power by a
government